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Re:For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works W... by fiblye on Thursday December 20, 2018 @07:04AM (#18724178)
But now we have movie studios who are (generally) paying for rights to use a song that was popular a few years ago, or they're paying for original soundtracks.

Reduce copyrights to just a few years and Hollywood, with all the parasites in it, would just lift songs like there's no tomorrow and further dodge paying a cent to the artists involved.

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Re:For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works W... by nicoburns on Thursday December 20, 2018 @09:49AM (#18725309)
Perhaps, but we'd be free to use their content as we saw fit too. Overall, I think reduced copyright would benefit the smaller artists (who might not be able to afford to license prior art now).
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